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Writers Publishing House

Also known as: 作家, 作家出版社有限公司

Founded
1953
Country / Region
China
Notable books
MacbethDream of the Red ChamberDream of the Red Chamber (Volumes 1 and 2)

1095 books 929 authors

About the publisher

Writers Publishing House is a Chinese publisher focused mainly on literary publishing. Its output covers classical literature, foreign literature, folk literature and Eastern philosophy, with some extension into popular reading such as social fiction and parenting books. Its catalogue contains more than 900 titles, including representative works such as Dream of the Red Chamber and its edited editions, Shakespeare's Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and foreign literary classics such as The Brothers Karamazov and Lost Illusions. In terms of authors, it includes classical writers such as Cao Xueqin and Gao E, foreign masters such as William Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Balzac, and translations by translators such as Zhu Shenghao, Geng Jizhi and Fu Lei. Overall, its publishing profile balances Chinese and foreign literary classics, emphasizes quality translations, and serves both academic and general readers; publicly available information on its specific publishing plans is limited.

Published (1095)

Arcades and Aura: 120 Beautiful Corners of Macau cover
Rating 3.8
Arcades and Aura: 120 Beautiful Corners of Macau 袁绍珊 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This book collects the author's columns on Macau life published in Hong Kong media between 2008 and 2016. Across 120 subtle corners and emotional mome…
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All the Roads in the World 王选 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The book uses the author's own experiences (time) as its warp and the circumstances of others (space) as its weft; each chapter revolves around a sing…
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Pure Lotus: A Biography of Zhu Ziqing 叶炜 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Mr. Zhu Ziqing is a renowned poet, writer, scholar, and educator in the history of modern Chinese literature, as well as a notable fighter for the New…
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Selected Poems of Pakistan Zhao Zhenjiang / 蒋朗朗 / 张嘉妹 / 张亚冰 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The Urdu poets and poems selected for this book are all outstanding figures and representative works in the history of Urdu poetry. They showcase the …
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Embracing the Sun 优秀蒙古文文学作品翻译出版工程组委会 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The novella collection Embracing the Sun brings together five outstanding novellas from Mongolian-language literary creation since the founding of the…
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Chart of the Heart's Sea 林森 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Lin Sen's collection of novellas and short stories, Chart of the Heart's Sea, is one volume in the "New Forces in Chinese Literature" series. The seri…
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Endless Summer 陆梅 Writers Publishing House · 2026 A novel of sixty thousand characters. *Endless Summer* is Lu Mei's coming-of-age novel for girls. Eleven-year-old "Old Saint" and her writer mother co…
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Bright Moon over the Desert Land: A Biography of Cai Wenji 郑彦英 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This biography of Cai Wenji uses the three marriages of her life as its thread, revealing to readers the strength and vulnerability, the sorrow and th…
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New Youth Studying Abroad 廖元辛 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This book is not a study-abroad guide, nor a motivational manual from success stories at the top of the pyramid. It is simply the testimony of a group…
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The Complete Works of Liu Zheng (Volume 15) 刘征 Writers Publishing House · 2026 After Mr. Liu Zheng retired from the People's Education Press in 1990, he moved from one nursing home to another on the outskirts of Beijing for great…
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Selected Fine Works of Ethnic Literature (2018-2022): Short Story Volume 石一宁 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This volume gathers outstanding short stories published in the Chinese-language edition of Ethnic Literature between 2018 and 2022—works that won the …
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Yingge Rice 陈崇正 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Yingge Fan is a novel centered on the culture of Yingge dance in Chaoshan. Through three stories spanning nearly a century, it weaves together the liv…
Jixia Scholar cover
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Jixia Scholar 陈歆耕 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The scholarship of the Hundred Schools of Thought in the pre-Qin period is the source of Chinese civilization and the first peak of China's intellectu…
Poems of Farm Work cover
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Poems of Farm Work 张中海 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The hollows worn into the stone steps by eaves-drip are years; the soul of the green-curtain sorghum hides in plant ash; the new wheat waves wrap the …
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On Yan Geling Liu Yan Writers Publishing House · 2026 Yan Geling's first novel was published by the PLA Literature and Art Publishing House in 1986, but she left soon after to study in the United States. …
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Northern Song Literatus: A Biography of Ouyang Xiu 邵振国 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The Northern Song Scholar-Official: A Biography of Ouyang Xiu is a detailed, well-sourced biography covering Ouyang Xiu's literary and political caree…
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The Complete Works of Liu Zheng (Volume 13) 刘征 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The Liu Zheng Collected Works is a collection of literary works by Liu Zheng (original name Liu Guozheng). The collection is divided into multiple vol…
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Great Winds in the Political Arena: A Biography of Wang Anshi 毕宝魁 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Wang Anshi was an accomplished statesman and man of letters of the Northern Song dynasty. This book presents his life in three parts. The first depict…
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The Flying Mule 王手 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Among Wang Shou's fiction, critics praise his short stories above all. From the past twenty years of work he has selected 16 short stories for this co…
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A Hundred Notes on Food and Time Xiao Fuxing Writers Publishing House · 2026 Mr. Xiao Fuxing's prose has influenced generations of Chinese readers, and decades of writing have brought his craft to ever greater refinement. In re…

Frequent authors

Zhao Zhenjiang (27)蒋朗朗 (20)宁琦 (18)刘征 (10)Qiong Yao (10)Huanzhulouzhu (Li Shoumin) (10)Zhong Shuhe (10)He Jianming (9)内蒙古翻译家协会 (9)张陵 (9)William Shakespeare (8)Cao Xueqin (8)